Some Sand, Sun and Salvation.
As Zelda sat upon her throne of cold hard cash she looked around the store and thought to herself of what her next action should be. She had bombs, she imagined they'd be put to use on things which needed removal and were too big to move, rocks, fallen trees, drunk moblins. Each would be incinerated by the blast leaving the way ahead open. She also had a selection of ropes, which had many useful applications. She could climb with them, tie boats or rafts up with them, use them to swing across chasms, garrotte unsuspecting moblins with them. The list was endless. Then there was the only other real item of interest in the store she found. Lamp oil, useful for lighting up dark areas so she can see where to proceed, it would be invaluable. If only she had a lamp to use the lamp oil with though.
Zelda took out her map, it seemed there weren't any other towns in Gamelon, but there was a small village nearby called Kobitan. It looked a pleasant little village with green meadows and farmed fields, on small hills. The Princess jumped to her feet. She noticed Impa was fast asleep in the pile of rupees and decided to leave her be as she made her way outside. Sakado had many things, but lanterns were one commodity it did not seem to house. As such, Zelda decided to travel to Kobitan. She wandered down the streets of Sakado, people still would not leave their homes out of fear of the monsters returning, for they had seen them vanquished before only to return again later.
Zelda reached the edge of town and looked at the expanse of land sprawling out before her. In the distance she saw it, Kobitan in it's natural glory. Between her and Kobitan however were the harsh desert sands of the area known as Ahitaru. A rather unremarkable desert, with only one thing of note she could see, the giant skeleton of what seemed to be some prehistoric fish. Zelda would not let the harsh desert make her back down, and took her first step from the road into the sand. Zelda worked her way up each hill of sand, trying to block the heat from her mind as she went. As she carried on she began to feel more and more weary. Then they struck.
Giant insects called Boons. Fast and deadly, they normally would shy away from taking on a warrior, but in the desert sun, they had the advantage. The creatures swooped at Zelda, sensing her exhaustion. One dug it's sharp beak-like stinger into her arm. Zelda screamed in pain, but strangely, this actually seemed to be the advantage she needed. The pain of this snapped her slightly out of her tired trance-like state. She raised her sword and sliced one of the boons in two. The other saw this and was horrified at what Zelda had done to its brother. It buzzed ferociously and swooped forward, aiming for her heart. Zelda was too fast though and held her sword forward. It stabbed right into the insect's brain.
As she wiped her sword of boon brains Zelda noticed a cave up ahead. She rushed forwards into it, glad to finally find some shade. Little did she know that this was the owner of the cave's intention all along. Living inside one of the few shaded areas in the desert often invited distressed travellers who seek shelter, it was like having it's own delivery service at it's door. Zelda dropped to the floor and sat against the wall, she was tired, overheated and her arm was bleeding. Zelda tried the best she could to wrap her wound with some cloth she had in her pocket for such occasions. She decided to take a couple of minutes to recuperate before continuing onwards. Zelda sat back and turned slightly to her side staring at the wall and trying to rest.
As she stared at the wall, she noticed there was something odd about part of it, it didn't seem to fit with the rest of the wall. Zelda tapped the wall with her arm, wondering if it was perhaps hollow and there could be secrets behind it, instead however, there was something else, the wall moved, and opened to reveal a large eye staring back at her. Zelda recognised that eye and quickly ducked, just as a large pincer slammed into the wall, aiming to take her head off. The wall she leaned against was in fact a giant crab known as a Gohma. It scuttled from the wall and across the floor after her. Zelda grabbed her shield and forced it between the mighty pincers. It clamped down on her shield and she could feel it slowly being crushed, she didn't have long. Zelda saw her only chance, she grabbed her sword and plunged it into the creatures only eye. It let out a scream and dropped down dead almost instantly, releasing her from it's claw.
Zelda was lucky, she slid her sword out of the Gohma's eyeball and rushed out of the cave, ahead was no longer desert, but a rocky road leading towards the large skeleton. Zelda ran towards it but before she reached there, she was faced by a chasm leading to a deep pit. Zelda backed away a little, trying to work out if she could jump over when from inside the cave two more Gohmas crawled out. They began rushing towards her, pincers at the ready. Zelda took a deep breath, ran and jumped across the pit. She landed on the other side in a tumble and quickly got to her feet. The Gohmas both approached the pit and looked at her across it. Furious at the killing of their neighbour, one of them rushed forwards and tried to jump. A tear dropped down from it's friend's eye as the Gohma dropped down into the pit, never to be seen again. The only remaining Gohma looked at Zelda, all alone, it had nothing now, no family, no friends, just an old empty cave. Zelda smiled and waved in a playful manner before turning her back on him.
Zelda beheld the giant fish skeleton, now right in front of her. She approached from the tail end where a rather strange woman was standing, shaking her arms and moving like she was in one of the Gameloneon night clubs. Zelda assumed the desert heat had gotten to her and that she was hallucinating, so she decided to put the poor woman out of her misery, a quick slice to throat should do it she thought, slicing at her. Instead, the mystery woman scooped up some water in a jug she had, or at least Zelda assumed that's what she was doing, it was hard to tell and almost looked like she was pouring the water out. "Nice jump over the Gohma pit! Here, have a drink..." She cheerfully exclaimed, passing Zelda the jug. "Thanks!" Zelda said, gurgling the water in an overdramatic fashion as the woman mysteriously stared at her, rubbing her hands together. "Hey! There's a fisherman trapped in the fishhead!" The woman suddenly exclaimed, her expression remained entirely unchanged however, almost as if she knew all along about him. Zelda, whilst being probably the wisest in Hyrule which, to be fair in this age wasn't saying much, turned like a gullible idiot away from the woman. "Really?" She asked looking around.
The next few moments are a bit hazy in Zelda's memory, she could have sworn the sun was out whilst she was drinking, and that she had a pocket in her magic pouch full of rubees. Still it was probably just her memory playing tricks on her, too much time with the Triforce of Wisdom could do that. Eventually she made her way up to the fish skull. Where its eyehole should have been was instead a giant rock. Zelda grabbed a bomb from her magic pouch and threw it at the stone. It exploded but the rock was untouched, so she did so again. Again, and again. By the tenth bomb somehow the stone miraculously shattered completely. Zelda was pleased she was rich now or else that would have been very annoying having to waste that many bombs on a stupid rock. She slipped down inside the skull of the giant fish.
Inside was, a creature which could be interpreted as a man. He had a rather skinny body, but with a potbelly and nothing on but a pair of raggedy old shorts. Zelda wondered how he'd gotten stuck in here, especially as he could have easily just walked out through the holes in the skeleton's giant ribs. Annoyed to have wasted her time, she stabbed the man. He suddenly stepped up to her really close, putting his face only a few centimetres away from her own. His old frazzled features had eyes which looked mysteriously young in comparison to the rest of him, his hair was long and white. "Thanks, you saved me! That's the last time I'm going fishing!" He said, suddenly holding onto his shorts as they seemed to almost fall down. Zelda prayed to all the Gods of Hyrule, Koridai and Gamelon that they wouldn't. The wizened figure picked up a boat oar and turned away waving. "See you in Sakado!" He said, walking out through the gap in the fish skeletons ribs, making Zelda's bombing of the stone pointless, meaning he could have escaped at any time but chose not to.
Zelda couldn't help but shake the feeling she'd just been had somehow. Still, she decided there were more important things to think about right now, and that they would pay eventually, oh yes, they'd pay. Ahead of her at the edge of the desert she saw it though, the beautiful greenery of Kobitan. Zelda felt great joy having reached it at last. That joy was short lived however, for behind every small wall and little hill sprung out moblins. Their spears were sharp, and their intent was clear, and their wit was... well there's not much to say about their wit. Regardless, they began flinging spears at Zelda, who raised her shield to deflect the blows. As she did so, more moblins charged forwards. Zelda was not willing to just give up now though, she had a lantern to find and her father to save, not to mention Link. She raised her sword and dashed forwards, felling a moblin in a single blow. The other moblins roared in anger, charging forwards, Zelda slipped down under a small wall. The moblins, not being too smart jumped over the wall to get her, at which point she raised her sword skyward in a glorious motion, proving once and for all that some moblins indeed did have a manhood. The other moblins actually backed off at this rather gruesome display, running away in tears for their poor comrade. They went on to found the Gamelon "Ja Ja's Orphanage." In memory of him and dedicated their lives to the betterment of society.
Zelda, rather pleased with herself wandered forwards towards the small cottages. She tried to enter the first just to find it was locked, the second however was open. As soon as Zelda entered the cottage, moblins began throwing spears at her. Sadly, the moblins weren't very good, they kept throwing more and more spears and just missing Zelda entirely, as she stood still in the doorway. The moblins kept going until they eventually ran out of spears to throw. It was then they realised their error. The tears they shed that moment were only exceeded by the blood that spilled from them.
Zelda, now covered in a lot of red looked around the house. It was clear the owners weren't dead, they'd probably simply fled when the moblins arrived. Still, Zelda was going to save everyone, so therefore she automatically felt she had every right to ransack their home. She knocked down books off the shelf, family photos and priceless antiques. She left the pots alone though, she knew not to mess with pots, I mean what kind of person would do that? "An idiot, that's who." she thought to herself. Eventually, she hit the jackpot. Zelda found a lantern which she naturally pocketed in her magic pouch and left.
Zelda's next stop was the only other building in the small village, a barn. Inside it was pitch black, Zelda could only see her own arms in front of her, nothing else but darkness. Obviously this was a time to put to use that new lantern, she lit it, revealing the room around her, as well as a thoroughly unremarkable creature of shadow, with a demon's face, large fearsome claws, black wings, red eyes and the power to shoot energy beams. The last of his kind in this land, he was determined to make his stand. Zelda stabbed him in the gut and stole his wallet before looking around the barn some more. All that remained was a key, which Zelda was sure would conveniently turn out to be to the locked cottage in the village. She took it and left, happy to have wiped out another race.
Zelda made her way to the locked cottage, using the key to unlock it, she then kicked the door down anyway just to feel powerful and walked in. Some strange girl was wandering around with a bad hunch and a rather large sunhat. Zelda poked her in the back, curious to see if she'd stand bolt upright in shock. Instead she dropped to the ground. Zelda poked the girl a couple more times and was about to loot the place before the girl crawled up to her suddenly. "Those darn moblins have eaten everything!" She exclaimed crawling forwards and looking up at Zelda. Her face then dropped into her hand as she swung her leg behind her playfully. Despite apparently starving to death she seemed pretty cheerful, perhaps insanely so. "I'd give anything for an Arpagos egg!" She finished dreamily. Zelda took this to mean she'd give her her home, life savings and hat for the egg. Smiling, she left through the front door. There was only one place she could think of right now to find that egg. She thought to herself that maybe it was time, to say "See you in Sakado."